I think you would choose a remarkably intelligent critic, who you would use as a foil to demolish your arguments and help bring out the racism, elitism, and intellectual thuggery in conservatives that align with you because they think you are a conservative instead of a fiercely moderate moderate.

At times when people like Weiss or Cottage got close to the truth, you would ban the critic thus providing more cred to both of you.

We would both know the truth and snicker about it while drinking wine and watching our reality TV show on our Precious.

It's all a lie, time to admit it, I'm not Althouse's sock puppet, she is MY sock puppet.

I know what you're thinking, 'she's a known law professor and we have documentary proof both video and audio that she's the same person as the UW prof.'

Sorry, logic like that doesn't work on the internet.

The real law professor known as Ann Althouse, barely is interested in computers, I took advantage of her lack of interest in the blogosphere and hired a doppelganger to impersonate the actual law professor.

It wasn't easy, but after years of casting, I found the right actress, and she's performed admirably.

The hard part was simulating Madison environs on her photo blogs and walkabout videos, but you'd be surprised what you can accomplish with a little budget and Hollywood know how.

Using CGI to edit out all those palm trees is a pain in the ass, though.

So when people chastise Althouse with the tired phrase, "you, a law professor", little do they realize that this Althouse isn't really that Althouse.

Oh yeah, omaha, sippican cottage has never been thoughtless and mean before. He's not the beacon of pretentious, born in the wrong generation (hark the 1950s), judgmental asshole he comes off as everytime he types a single word here or on his own pretentious blog, no! And his eyes really aren't that far apart!